#nothing changes at all in this society

[bnha-trash]

justice for lov ☹️

[nessacousland]

Well, I finally finished Dragon Age: Friendship is Magic and that is *my* biggest regret.

[aerodynamic-acephalic]

ok this is my take on the devoured

so I did a little table of the affinity between some devoured and the four elements and/or the four tendencies

4 is reserved for the element you got devoured by 3 is for elements with a strong connection 2 is for elements with an okay connection 1 is for elements with little connection

then I made a graph (Raven's not on it because I wanted one of each element. My regards to the Rajavi Family)

then I found the area of the graph and split it into 3 groups Elemental Devoured - affinity with 1 element Dual Devoured - affinity with 2 elements Learned Devoured - affinity with 3 elements (there's no "affinity with 4 elements" because you need to forgo one element to be devoured by it's opposite)

then I made 16 categories (4 Elemental Devoureds, 8 Dual Devoureds, 4 Learned Devoureds) and a vague description for what they all look like. There are only 8 Dual Devoureds because of the opposing elements thing.

Elemental Devoureds are kinda like a cross between humans and elementals. They don't have corporeal desires (eating, sleeping, drinking) nor do they die like humans, but they feel and act the way humans would. Many choose not to abandon (magical) society and stay involved in the community. Several still fuck off to the forest tho.

Dual Devoureds live up to the rep a bit more. They predominantly abandon society unless kept against their will, or they want to stay around humans they have a particular connection to (think close family or friends). They can act close to fey-like creatures, and are the source of some folktales in the non-magical world.

Learned Devoureds are literally just creatures, man. They live in particular habitats, they let go of almost all their human memories, all of it. They are extremely territorial, but will just about leave you alone if you leave them alone. Much like elementals, they are weak to their opposing element. Unlike other Devoureds, they are really fucking big. Like, "eyes the size of coconuts" kinda big.

Most Devoureds are permeable, but the Earth ones aren't. The Mud and Magma Devoureds technically are, but you have to try really fucking hard, man (and, like, beware of getting burnt).

[byfulcrums]

i've been thinking about lesbian scott summers because the other day i made a jeanscott drawing where scott was a girl and like. how would it affect her, as a character, and how would it affect her relationship with other people (namely jean)?

scott's already canonically 'nervous' when it comes to his attraction to women. he's always like, "is this safe? it's not, it's not safe" until actively proven otherwise and EVEN THEN he's still like that (whyyy), and sure it might be because of his deadly eyes but add the lesbian into it. this shit takes place in the 60s, 70s, add the lesbian into it

[shadowinthetreesbutcooler]

red team are FULLY going feral im so here for it, cellbit vouching for cannibalism and getting excited, baghera wanting to build a dirt shack and everyone wanting to crawl into a cave and chase people through the woods

[lavenderjewels]

feel so validated it was confirmed gojo killed the higher ups because I loved the page turner shock in chapter 223 of seeing the higher ups slaughtered after Gojo lightly talking to Gakuganji

[cararata]

I'm trying to finish watching bnha bc i never did and i'm also starting to really like the chatacters again but that fuckass ending is ruining my experience and also bakugou is still there

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

i got so caught up in the euphoria of creating a detailed and super cool world that i completely forgot the story has a horrid fucking ending. (i just wrote the end and i'm sad)

[mostlydeadallday]

are you ever so lonely it feels like acid under your skin

[satoriberry]

tha terf paradox of promoting acceptance of oneself's biological nature and not changing it for societal ideologies but then turning around and criticizing any person that has a different perception of their biological nature that doesn't immediately enter the "male or female" binary hmmm,,,,

[quantomeno]

Seinfeld in Republic City

Jerry would be an earth bender. Very particular and precise, doesn't really show his emotions. He's the solid ground that the rest of the characters bounce off.

George is a fire bender. He gets into rages easily. He's also still a bit stuck in his parents' wartime Fire Nation mentalities (he keeps yelling 'We're supposed to be living in a society!' and has internalised homophobia as he tries to deny his attraction to Jerry). George also likes his chicken spicy.

Elaine is a water bender. She's got that trait of alternating between the emotional and heartfelt role and the passionate or angry character, much like Katara (which I like to say is a reflection of how the sea can change from calm to stormy). And I mean, look at her smooth dance moves (sweet fancy Roku).

Kramer is an air bender. This was the easiest to pick because he just floats through life and exists with no clear tethers to the real or physical world. He 100% communicates with the spirits. He was a non-bender from a mixed marriage (his mother was from the Fire Nation) before Harmonic Convergence gave him air bending.

[maretriarch]

i wish people would realize that 99.99999% of posts that fall under the "positivity post listicle" genre r little else than people listing traits they themselves have and dislike and wish they could change and find negative and undesirable truly have no confidence in but no willpower to change, and instead of any soul searching or changing of behavior make a post thats begging for likes and positive feedback on these negative traits as an avoidance tactic so they dont have to change

[databent]

why the fuck is it that some people cant seem to acknowledge that people can just... be disabled. not through any fault of their own, not because something "happened" to them, just because, you know, sometimes people have disabilities. like, come on

[bigboobshaunt]

Idunno! Alex and Sandra are soooo clearly both alter-egos to Alexandra* that I can't help but feel any read that would treat them as different people is very disingenuous, like... their genderfluidity is a reference to the color-changing nature of their alexandrite core, it could not be any clearer...

[nest-being]

the way i like something tagged feminism and immediately get a bunch of terf posts recommended to me it's fucking infuriating FUCK ALL TERFS FUCK GENDER ESSENTIALISM. if you're a terf you are NOT a feminist- you stand for fucking fascism.

[yellowocaballero]

this entire chapter was a joy to read but I gotta say I 100% understand knives’ fear of brad—the opening scene was one of the most strangely fear inducing things I’ve ever read. kudos and 10/10 for making me feel nauseous over what turns out to be a very funny scene of knives getting murder-grounded

Love this ask. Love asks about experiences that surprise me a lot, in a good way - part of me is always like 'write a dialectical essay on why you think so???' and the other part is 'the picture and vibes you've painted is incredibly funny and I love it'. Thank you for the ask anyway. Get to talk about Brad and Luida FINALLY.

I'm deciding that this is a victory, because it gave you a great insight into exactly how Knives felt LMFAOOO. He has spent literally this entire story acting superior, holier-than-thou, won't shut up about how he's physiologically and mentally leagues ahead of you puny humans, you're so lame and pathetic and Millions "Genius Cool Guy Surgeon" Knives is soooo much better than you. And then the minute he goes home and sees his foster parents he is suddenly the goodest little boy who you would both introduce to your parents and give a doggy treat. They are two geriatric astronauts and Millions Knives is pants-shittingly terrified of them.

I was legitimately a bit worried that I wrote Brad as too harsh in the flashback scene, or uncomfortable-in-a-bad-way in the beginning scene. I was really careful with both. How Brad and Luida raised Knives is absolutely not a great method of parenting, lmfao. But they weren't really raising a child - they were taming a tiger. I think you can safely assume that Knives was not given a single inch his entire adolescence. He didn't get away with shit. That's how behavioral conditioning works. I really can't stress enough that, although Knives is a pretty good guy in the present, he is still the literal actual Millions Knives. And what 14yo Knives here got up to wasn't all that different from what canonical 14yo Knives was getting up to. The difference is Brad and Luida - and they knew exactly what they were trying to prevent. They knew they couldn't fuck up. They knew what would happen if Knives didn't change. It must have been a lot of pressure.

The sheer balls on the guy who walks up to Millions Knives and just goes, "Okay, asshole. Kill me. Do it.". So insane that it gaslights Knives into believing that Brad and Luida are the only superior lifeforms to himself.

But at the end of the day, what that scene still conveys is - it's a farce. Their family is a social contract: Brad and Luida will give Knives what he wants (a meaning to his life, and on a deeper level he won't acknowledge, a family), and in return Knives politely pretends that they are remotely capable of controlling him. A handcuff is an insanely restrictive method of grounding somebody - and obviously Knives could have gotten outb of it any time. But Knives lets them do it, because if he doesn't then it would break the keyfabe, the farce. And that would destroy Knives' only path towards becoming a good person. Because Brad and Luida told him that they are the only path towards becoming a good person. And if you aren't a good person you have no reason to exist btw. Also we don't love you anymore.

Kinda fucked up if Knives was, like, a regular child? Yes. Only sensible thing to do if the child was Millions Knives? Yes. It's complicated but that's why I really love it. Also for the insane funniness of Knives experiencing fear.

TL;DR Handcuffing your child to its bed is only okay if the child has bad vibes and is unfun to be around.